Papers of Erskine Caldwell, 1925-1988.

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Papers of Erskine Caldwell, 1925-1988.

Collection contains a 1925 March 3 certificate of marriage, Washington, D.C., for Caldwell and his first wife, Helen C. Lannigan, signed by the Rev. Titus E. Davis. Also included are copies of a review of Caldwell's autobiography, "With all my might," from "The Georgia Librarian," 1987 November; and a copy of Kaname Imanaga's "Oedipus complex of Erskine Caldwell."

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SNAC Resource ID: 7346692

University of Virginia. Library

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Caldwell, Helen C. Lannigan.

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Davis, Titus E.

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...

Imanaga, Kaname.

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